Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-12-08

into voluntary liquidation, 119 have falIeo.
leaving in operation at that date 3,O61.
OF this number g. 49 furnished reports of
condition at the date of the last call,
October 5.
Mrs. JOHN EVANS, of Scranton, Pa, on
the ID literally chopped the head of her
five-year- old boy to pieces. She is be-
lieved to be insane.
DAVID NJ. ANDERSON, of Kansas, was
victimized by sharpers to the tune of $50
in the Kansas City Union depot on the
I'd.
The surgeons of railroads centering in
ST. Joseph, No., have organized society
for thorough examination of accidents
peculiar to railroads.
BRADSTREET'S estimates the cotton crop
of the country for the current year at g.
$4,000 bales.
AT sunset, on the evening of the I'd, the
Missouri Pacific railroad made connection
with the Denver 6 Rio Grande in Puebl o,
Col. Traffic is now open.
JAKE NIMoNs, colored, was hanged at
Mount Pleasant s. c., on the ID, for the
murder of Mike Plottkin, an Israelite mer-
chant, at Houyhill, in February last. The
drop fell at S tx o'clock a. m. His neck
was broken.
THE Virginia and North Carolina Con-
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the repeal of the tobacco and fruit brandy
taxes, but some of them say they do not
find much sentiment in favor of such a
proposition unless the duties on the neces-
sares of life are also cut down.
TEEMER's hacker, James Keenan,, is out
with a new proposition to Mr.. st. John,
Gaudaur's hacker, looking to a great
worlds championship scullng race be-
tween Beach, Teemer, Gaudaur and
possibly Hanlan.
ALL the members of the Austrian
Rechsrath who are school-teachers, have
been ordered to give up their school duties
for the whole period for which they have
been elected to the .Reichsrath, on the
ground that education and politics should
lie kept separate.
4 FIRE i'll the insane asylum at London,
Ont, on the I'd, destroyed the kitchen,
laundry and bakery. Much confusion
prevailed, but the fire was soon got under
control.
A MAN calling himself A. b. Atwell, of
Hoboken. N. Y, has been flooding the
West with circulars Offering to furnish
counterfeit money. The Hoboken police
decided to hunt the man out, and detec-
tives were put upon the case. For several
days they Swallowed the post-office to ar.
rest the man who might call for Atwell's
letters. On the morning of the I'd they
caught him "dead to rights"
THE locomotive of freight train on the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad ex-
ploded on the morning of the I'd near
East Mahanoy Junction, Pa. Alexander
Walker, the engineer, was instantly
killed, and the fireman and two brakemen
We're severely injured that they died
while being taken home. The victims all
lived at Tamaqua.
The amount of mail matter sent out
daily from the Secretary of the Interior
Departments office, is about 3, 0j5 pounds.
OF this fifty pounds is the letter mail,
SOD pounds is books from the document
dvis; on, and about the same amount from
the stationery and printing division.
THE st. Paul PjOneer-Pr learns from
Rathsay, Mimi. of the existence of two
cases of leprosy of the most loathsome
type, being known to medical men as ele-
phantiasis mutelans. They are Norwe-
gians and heads of families, one living in
Otterfall County and the other in Wilkin
County.
JUMPING Doc, the Indian who fired the
Cheyenne agency, in Dakota, few days
ago, was captured on the night of the
1st. On the morning of the I'd he attack
ed his guards and stabbed two of them to
death with pair of shears and then COM
mitted suicide.
CORONER c.. &. MCHATToN, one of the
most popular men in Denver, COL, was
found dead in bed on the I'd from the eff
fects of an overdose Of laudanum. De-
ceased has had considerable domestic
trouble lately, and for several days and
nights had been nervous and unable to
sleep. 1t is thought the drug was taken
to produce sleep.
AT Farmland, Ind, on the night of the
I'd, Samuel Wright was fatally and
George Ritter seriously injured by an ex-
plosion of natural gas. The two men en-
tered room which Ritter was fitting up
for q restaurant. A match was struck to
light the lamps and an explosion instant
ly resulted, completely wrecking the
building. The explosion resulted from
leakage of natural gas.
THE London Daily Ne,os says: "The
Imprisonment OF Lord Mayor Sullivan is a
national scandal. He is man of the
highest character, both publ y and
privately. The question which the people
of Great Britain are asking in shame and
anger is what manner of law is this which
converts such men into Grimm als?"